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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Hollywood AI Crisis: Will Artificial Intelligence Eliminate Acting & Jobs?
Variety: Filmmaker Justine Bateman doesn’t think there is a thriving future for actors in filmed entertainment as we know it. She believes that artificial intelligence will ultimately suck the creative marrow out of Hollywood.
All of the AI talks within the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes has been really thought provoking and has generated a lot of opinions and questions in my mind. I don’t with some of the stances in this article that believe that AI could generate a whole script and have it be as good as a human writer, or generate an entire TV show or movie and have it look real. AI, atleast so far, has shown that it can’t generate emotion-provoking text that shows empathy or compassion and it can’t make realistic art yet. When AI is asked to generate a picture of a human, it usually messes up a lot of features that are more complex in the human body, such as hands, faces, and feet. On the other hand, I completely agree with what this articles has to say about background actors and digital scans of performers. When it comes to acting and being a celebrity, you face is kinda everything, so if a studio can just pay you a fraction of what they will earn from the scan and using a celebrity’s face whenever they want, then that is a huge problem.
All of the AI talks within the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes has been really thought provoking and has generated a lot of opinions and questions in my mind. I don’t with some of the stances in this article that believe that AI could generate a whole script and have it be as good as a human writer, or generate an entire TV show or movie and have it look real. AI, atleast so far, has shown that it can’t generate emotion-provoking text that shows empathy or compassion and it can’t make realistic art yet. When AI is asked to generate a picture of a human, it usually messes up a lot of features that are more complex in the human body, such as hands, faces, and feet. On the other hand, I completely agree with what this articles has to say about background actors and digital scans of performers. When it comes to acting and being a celebrity, you face is kinda everything, so if a studio can just pay you a fraction of what they will earn from the scan and using a celebrity’s face whenever they want, then that is a huge problem.
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